"I might not be a mother, but at least I understand the never-ending dilemma of mothers and the lack of sleep, or so I thought. For after having to sleep beside my two nieces last night, I knew I didn’t even know the half of it."

And other honor crimes from the proud Hashemite Kingdom. It's been quite a week for so-called honor killings. Let's see now: One cuckolded husband barbarically brutalized his wife's lover - through sodomy, throat-slitting, and cold-blooded murder, then wielding his victim's dismembered penis to the police authorities.

A father stabbed his daughter to death because she was late bringing him his coffee.

And now this - the killing of a sister for being tricked into sex by a false suitor who 'dishonored' his promised to marry her after fornication. So in summary, crimes worthy of honor-punishments include delayed coffee and falling for a man with dishonorable intentions.

“Administrative detention’ is when a women is kept in a minimum security prison to keep her family from killing her for honor. Indefinitely. So essentially, the de facto sentence for alleged fornication is life in prison, or death. For women only, of course."

"I note today with neither joy nor vindication a further worsening of their relationship. Specifically, an Iraqi MP has accused Kuwait of stealing Iraq’s oil with ‘slant drilling’. This comment, as infuriating as it is by itself, is all the worse given the historical resonance with which it is loaded loaded: Saddam Hussein said the same thing as one of his pretexts for invading Kuwait."